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Haaretz:
UN delegation presents cease-fire package; Livni hints Israel won't rule out int'l force in Lebanon — Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni hinted Tuesday that Israel would not object to a temporary international force in south Lebanon, despite earlier an outright Israeli rejection of such a plan.
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New York Times:
Israeli General Says Lebanon Offensive Will Last Weeks — JERUSALEM, July 18 — A top Israeli general said today that Israel's offensive in Lebanon would last another few weeks, and he said that the use of large numbers of ground forces had not been ruled out.
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Agence France Presse:
Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton — UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
Firas Al-Atraqchi / Aljazeera:
'Lebanon crisis an international conspiracy' — The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict threatens to drag Syria, Iran and the US into a regional war. — As'ad AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New 'War on Terrorism' as well as The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism …
StrategyPage:
Hizbollah's Iranian Rocket Force — July 18, 2006: It's been no secret that, for years, Iran has been shipping, through Syria, thousands of unguided rockets to Hizbollah in Lebanon. As far back as 2001, there were reports of 240mm Fadjr rockets arriving in Hizbollah controlled territory in southern Lebanon.
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Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Hunker Down With History — The greatest mistake Israel …
Hunker Down With History — The greatest mistake Israel …
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Times of London:
Beyond Lebanon — World leaders must do better than ground troops to silence Hezbollah
Beyond Lebanon — World leaders must do better than ground troops to silence Hezbollah
Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel — President Bush took time out from the G-8 Summit to grope German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I'm not kidding. It boggles the mind. (Update: John at C&L has the video up.) — Via Mash (by the way, great get!), we get photos via a friend of his in Germany.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Presidential Groping — She sure doesn't seem to happy about it to me. … Video-WMP Video-QT later — This has been an awful trip for Bush to say the least on so many levels. Please list all the problems he has had in the comment section. … Lindsay: Every woman will recognize …
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Reuters:
NYT to cut paper size and close plant —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times to Reduce Page Size and Close a Plant in 2008 — The New York Times is planning to reduce the size of the newspaper, making it narrower by one and a half inches, and to close its printing operation in Edison, N.J., company officials said yesterday. — The changes, to go into effect …
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Duncan Black / Los Angeles Times:
Why the Left Is Furious at Lieberman — A blogger's blast at the embattled Connecticut senator. Hint: It's not just Iraq. — SOME TIME AFTER having lunch in Iraq with the junior senator from Connecticut, Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware told an interviewer …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
G.O.P.'s Bid for Blacks Falters — Julian Bond, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., addressing an early session of the group's convention Monday in Washington. President Bush, who has had strained relations with the group, may address it later. — WASHINGTON, July 17 — Even for some Republicans …
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Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times:
Reed Hopes Voters Keep Faith, Forget Abramoff — His foe in Georgia's GOP primary criticizes the PR work he did for his lobbyist friend. — ALPHARETTA, Ga. — For former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed to succeed in his first bid for public office, he's going to have to pray for the help of voters like Norma Saunders.
Think Progress:
Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks 'Are You Going To Kill Me?' — Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is leading the opposition to the H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that Brownback has used a deceptive and false report …
Milt Freudenheim / New York Times:
A Windfall From Shifts to Medicare — The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people. — And analysts expect the benefits to show up in many of the quarterly financial results that drug makers will begin posting this week.
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Jules Witcover / Salt Lake Tribune:
The Democrats' message dilemma — WASHINGTON — It was a bit startling the other morning to hear Sen. Charles Schumer of New York — the garrulous poster boy of Democratic liberalism — intone that New Deal Democracy is over. But also, he added just as surprisingly, so is Reagan Republicanism.
James Boyce / The Huffington Post:
Punk'd By John O'Neill And His Friends — Last week on the Huffington Post, I asked a legitimate question: were the actions of the Swift Boat veterans who attacked John Kerry influenced by the substantial monetary payments they received? I think it's important for everyone to understand …
Faiz / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Bush Personally Blocked DOJ Investigation Of Wiretapping Program — Earlier this year, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is charged with investigating attorney misconduct, announced that it could not pursue an investigation into the role …